• @orrk@lemmy.world
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    18 months ago

    because this has nothing to do with concentration camps, and everything to do with the American government and government related massacres in America?

    I mean, if you want to bring concentration camps into this, we can start talking about why a majority of the American prison population is black and are used as life long slave labor.

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        08 months ago

        oh ya, i forgot, for some reason we keep adding new groups to “white” to keep a majority in anything

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            17 months ago

            no, but for a long time Irish, Italians, Germans etc… weren’t white, until they needed to increase the size of “whites” because there weren’t enough WASPS to outnumber POC

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                17 months ago

                yup, “white” is a completely artificial concept that originated in America (as in the continent) as part of the slave trade justification.

                not even the Nazis had this “white” concept, in fact European racism is not along the lines of skin color

                  • @givesomefucks@lemmy.worldM
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                    17 months ago

                    you’re having an aneurysm.

                    That’s a borderline insult, and you reported them for misinformation when what they’re saying is how it really was.

                    I think the confusion is they’re talking about what really happened, and you’re acting like they’re saying it was right.

                    “White” was expanded in America to include Irish and Italians.

                    As they lost the majority, they’d let in more groups to maintain the majority. No one is saying that made logical sense, and those lines are arbitrary.

                    But that is what happened.

                    https://www.theroot.com/when-the-irish-weren-t-white-1793358754